Herm carrageen, c. 1865
George Geary's great scheme. From The Star, January 27, 1883. From Guernsey cuttings (Andros Tupper collection). 'The Island of Herm and its resources.'
Library Newspaper Collection
Prospectors marooned, November 1947
'Aircraft wreckage used for fire to keep out cold.' From the Star.
Don't kid yourself: mines, shells, bombs, November 1947
'Mines, shells, bombs, flung from dump: work of hooligans.' From the Star.
November 5, 1907: trouble
Guy Fawkes Night in Trinity Square, and a home-made pipe bomb in St Martin's. From The Star, June 1907.
Guernsey breed of goat soon? November, 1947
From The Star, in the Library collection.
My little brothers: Christmas with Victor Hugo, 1862
From the Gazette de Guernesey, Saturday 27 December, a report on Hugo's Christmas party for deprived children; a letter from Hugo to his wife, whose idea it all was in the first place; and another to the French publisher Castel, in which he plans to donate the proceeds of a new book of drawings to his poor Guernsey protégés. The editor of the Gazette at this time was Hugo's friend and disciple, Guernseyman Henri Marquand. The photograph accompanying this article is dated 1868. It was taken in March by Arsène Garnier. (Another very similar set of photographs was taken by a Jerseyman with a studio in London, named Henry Frankland, in February 1868; the Library has a photographic plate of one of these iconic images.) This particular photograph was popular with the public at the time; they could buy it in the local shops.Article by Dinah Bott.
January 1881: Storms and snow
From the newspapers, including severe storms and gales in Guernsey.
Winter 1916
From the local newspapers.
December 1843
From the Guernsey newspapers.
Mrs William Sharshaw
A brief obituary of a pioneering woman, from The Monthly Illustrated Journal (the Guernsey Magazine), February 1889. Mary Esther Sharshaw, born in October 1821, daughter of Henry Cumber and Mary Gallienne, was a pharmacist. The obituary does not mention that she came from two families of prominent Quakers. The two photographs of Mary, which are reproduced courtesy of their owner, both show her with a book. In the lower picture she is sporting a fine calabash, a typical Guernsey ladies' hat; the photograph is by her sister, the Guernsey photographer Sarah Louise Cumber.